Lighting TD

Company Description

With offices all over the globe, MPC is one of the world's leading visual effects (VFX) studios, creating award winning, high-end VFX for the film and advertising industries.

We are constantly looking for the best talent in the world, enthusiastic people that come in everyday to be a part of some of the best work in the industry. Our teams in London, and throughout our global network of studios, produce creative, visually stunning and technically challenging VFX and digital projects of the highest quality, and we are looking for candidates with a desire to be involved in thesuccess of these projects.

Job Description

Lighting TDs are responsible for producing high-quality lighting and rendering for our CG scenes. If you have a passion for lighting and can use Maya and Renderman then we want to hear from you, whether you've just graduated, are looking for new challenges or are used to leading teams of Lighting TDs - all levels are welcome!

Qualifications

For consideration we would expect many of the following skills:

Strong Knowledge of Renderman (user level)

Strong understanding of rendering methods.

Understanding Shading models

Shader Writing Ability a plus

Previous experience with Linux

Knowledge of Mel/Python scripting

Previous experience in a VFX environment

Previous experience performing Look Development tasks

Experience of real-world lighting and photography

Katana experience would be a bonus

Whilst we may not have a suitable vacancy within our Lighting team at the time you apply we will ensure that we keep in touch for future opportunities. If we do have a position we think would interest you then we will be in touch really soon!

Additional Information

The details above provide an outline of the key requirements for candidates to apply for a role in this department. At MPC we have a number of job classifications within our artist team structure. These are:

Artist

Key Artist

Technical Artist

Lead

Head of Department

Based on your skills we will assess your suitability for a particular role during the application process.

More details of the roles and responsibility for each classification can be found on our website http://www.moving-picture.com/film/content-pages/our-teams/

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.